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Love is the Rule of Living
Perhaps these previous failures mean that the rule of love cannot be hastened. It must germinate, be nurtured, and grow in the hearts of individuals--voluntarily. When a large majority have it, universal love will simply take over.
Love is the rule of living in God's kingdom--supreme devotion to God while loving your neighbor as yourself.
The evidence to all the world that you have been born of the Spirit is that you sincerely love one another.
When the wise understand the impulses of others, they will love them. When you love your neighbors you have already forgiven them. This capacity to understand human nature and to forgive apparent wrong doing is God-like. And God-likeness is the measure of your spiritualization.
Love is the outworking of the divine and inner urge of life. It is founded on understanding, nurtured by unselfish service, and perfected in wisdom.
Love must grasp the ever changing concept of the highest cosmic good of the individual who is loved. And such love goes on to strike this same attitude to all individuals who could possibly be influenced by Spirit-led mortals' love for their fellows.
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